By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Puzzle & Dragons hype in Japan continues: the country’s top smartphone game has crossed the 8 million-user mark on January 30, maker GungHo revealed yesterday. Even though Puzzle & Dragons is out in English on both on iOS and Android since last year, success abroad has been...
DeNA released their results for the third quarter (ending December 31, 2012) of fiscal 2012 today, and things are looking pretty good for the Mobage operator overall. As usual, I could copy and paste the whole presentation on the new numbers here, but the major bullet point is that revenue...
Big shake-up at Tokyo-based NHN Japan today: the LINE operator and Japanese subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN is splitting up into 2 different companies. The basic idea is to separate the gaming from the web service business. NHN Japan says that going forward its gaming section will operate...
GREE is continuing to step on the gas: after Konami’s Dragon Collection spin-off “Dracolle & Poker”, Bandai Namco’s “One Piece – Adventure Log”, and “AKB0048 Galaxy Cinderella” from the same company, it’s now Capcom’s turn to...
Tokyo-based mobile game provider Colopl has racked up a staggering 20 million registered users across its portfolio. It took the company roughly 16 months to reach this milestone (the first title was released in September 2011): 10 months to get to the first 10 million users, and another 6 months...
GREE released a new first-party game on its iOS platform today, Poker Creature (a title the company should change if they bring this title abroad). From a pure content perspective, one recent trend in Japan’s mobile gaming market is that makers increasingly experiment by mixing different...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry